Oracle restricting access to source code. Now what?
Jack Sparrow
interest was this sentence:
We will no longer
distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating
system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis.
How will this affect zfs-fuse? Does this mean that the public
repository with go away or won't be updated until there's a Solaris
release? It would really suck if we couldn't get updates from
upstream.
1. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.general/52752
sgheeren
They used the 'word' FUD in there. Isn't that awkwardly informal? I
still an inkling of doubt left as to the source of this news.
Thanks for keeping us posted
Seth
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Daniel Smedegaard Buus
dissing the CEO of Oracle for completely missing the whole point that
made Sun the power that it is today: An open (source) power with an
immense community of foot soldiers backing it. He was actually
worrying about if the future of osol, as we hadn't seen any public
builds since Nevada/134. Seems he was right.
It seems that the "we" that is referred to in the memo is the old
"we", i.e. the Sun "we", and not this Oracle bullshit that is "we want
to be Microsoft, too, even if they suck, cause they're filthy rich".
"We have the leading
share" - no, Sun did, and you bought it. "We have a brand that stands
for innovation, quality, security, and trust" - no, you have a brand
that stands for overly complicated though extremely advanced
proprietary software, Sun had the other thing you were talking abut...
Etc...
For me, this is doubly tragic, in that it sucks for us, and surely, it
will suck for Oracle in the long run.
Jesus Christ, the ones who worried about MySQL now seem like prophets.
I have a feeling this won't end good.
sgheeren
> [...] no, Sun did, and you bought it. "We have a brand that stands
> for innovation, quality, security, and trust" - no, you have a brand
> that stands for overly complicated though extremely advanced
> proprietary software, Sun had the other thing you were talking abut...
>
> I have a feeling this won't end good.
>
in the end a 'Canonical' - like party will profit by marketing something
viable that has emerged from the heaps, made by volunteers.
Stefan de Konink
> Jesus Christ, the ones who worried about MySQL now seem like prophets.
> I have a feeling this won't end good.
Come on, it is not /that/ bad.
1) There are better open source databases than MySQL and Oracle together.
2) New filesystems are being developed, ZFS was/is a super duper well
designed and intergrated filesystem. But we all know that has also some
major flaws.
3) Regarding to Java as the leading cross platform code, I doubt anyone
will disagree that Python is doing a better job.
4) The IP; so I truly wonder if some people got really annoyed what it
would cost to buy out Oracle theirselves. [Because they can]
Stefan
